View up a river with wooded banks [Bray album]
No. 7 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049)
While the location is unspecific, this appears to be a European landscape and may be a view near Deal, Kent, if it is related to other items in the album from which it comes.
It is one of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest.
While the location is unspecific, this appears to be a European landscape and may be a view near Deal, Kent, if it is related to other items in the album from which it comes.
It is one of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest.
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Object Details
ID: | PAJ1982 |
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Collection: | Fine art |
Type: | Drawing |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Gabriel Bray |
Date made: | circa 1774? |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Purchased with the assistance of the Society for Nautical Research Macpherson Fund |
Measurements: | Sheet: 114 x 177 mm; Mount: 317 x 481 mm |
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